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  • 61 великолепный

    1) General subject: bang up, brag, bright, bully (bully for you! - молодец! браво!), celestial, colossal, excellent, fab, fabulous, glorious (тж. ирон.), goodly, gorgeous, grand, immense, imperial, lordly, magnific, magnificent, palatial, portly, princely, proud, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, rattling, rattling good, resplendent, sensational, shining, something like, spacious, spiffing, spiffy, splendid, star, stunning, sumptuous, super, superb, supereminent, swell, swinging, terrific, top drawer, top-drawer, topnotch, trimming, undeniable, wizard, sovereign, brilliant, magnificient
    3) Slang: ripping
    4) American: gear
    5) Obsolete: brave, gallant, triumphant
    6) Botanical term: beautiful (лат. formosus)
    7) Military: spoony
    10) Religion: magnifical
    11) Australian slang: scrum, scrummy
    12) Jargon: George, bang-up, fab fabulous, heart, high-class, hounds, hummer, rocking, sanitary, savage, scrumptious (об одежде, качестве пищи, внешнем виде), shag, shirt, slap-up, snitzy, spiny, splashing, superfly, froody (Oh, you have some froody ideas, all right. But can you carry them out? О, у тебя великолепная идея, хорошо. Но способен ли ты осуществить её?), gone (This ice cream is gone, man! Чувак, это мороженное великолепно!), gnarly (This pizza is too gnarly for words! Эта пица просто великолепна!), evil (This wine is really evil! Это вино действительно великолепно!), sexy (Your idea is real sexy. Твоя идея действительно великолепна.), rad, vicious, hellaclous, way rad, hot-shot, hotshot, serious, slick, smokin', major, stellar, stokin', surf, all the way live, too much, narly, money, boo, boss, cracking, flash, hard, hipper-dipper, radical, solid, tearing
    13) Emotional: topping
    14) Student language: brutal
    15) Makarov: costly, glittering, kingly, rich
    16) Emotional: heavenly

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  • 62 прикатывать крышку консервной банки к корпусу

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > прикатывать крышку консервной банки к корпусу

  • 63 В-244

    ВЕРТЕТЬСЯ ВОЛЧКОМ VP
    1. ( subj: concr) to rotate without stopping
    X вертелся волчком = X was spinning like a top.
    Он два раза испытал это страшное мучительное чувство страха смерти... Первый раз он испытал это чувство тогда, когда граната волчком вертелась перед ним и он смотрел на жнивьё, на кусты, на небо и знал, что перед ним была смерть (Толстой 7). Ttoice he had experienced that agonizing feeling, the dread of death....The first time he had felt it was when the shell had spun like a top in front of him, and he had looked at the stubble field, at the bushes, and the sky, and knew that he was face to face with death (7a).
    2. (subj: human to be in constant motion (while standing or sitting in one place)
    X вертится волчком = X can't hold (stand, sit) still
    (in limited contexts) X is fidgety X has ants in his pants.
    3. (subj: human to bustle, busy o.s. without taking any time to sit down and rest
    X вертится волчком = X is (always) buzzing about (around)
    X is (always) on the go (the run) X is (always) running around (like crazy) X is (always) busy as a bee.
    (Лебедев:) В наше время, бывало, день-деньской с лекциями бьёшься, а как только настал вечер, идёшь прямо куда-нибудь на огонь и до самой зари волчком вертишься... (Чехов 4). (L.:) Now, in our time you'd sweat away at your lectures all day long, then you'd make for the bright lights in the evening and buzz around till the crack of dawn (4b).

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  • 64 В-352

    жить КАК НА ВУЛКАНЕ coll как + PrepP Invar adv
    (to live) in a potentially dangerous situation, expecting sth. unpleasant, disastrous to happen: (be living) on top of a volcano
    (be sitting) on a time bomb (a volcano).
    «Живем мы, знаете, как на вулкане... Всё может произойти...»(Ильф и Петров 1). "We're living on top of a volcano, you know Anything can happen" (1a).
    «Интересно, постигаете ли вы, на каком мы тут и без вас вулкане?» - «...Жена совершенно права. И без вас не сладко» (Пастернак 1). "I wonder if you realize what a volcano we are sitting on even without you here?" "...My wife is quite right. Things are bad enough without you" (1a).

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  • 65 З-26

    ПОД (ПО) (САМУЮ) ЪАВЙЖУ highly coll PrepP these forms only fixed WO
    1. наполнить, нагрузить, набить что (чем or, less often, кем) \З-26 ( usu. adv
    (to fill, load etc sth.) to its uppermost physical capacity, to a point beyond which it is impossible, unadvisable, unrealistic etc to go
    to the limit
    right to the top chock-full (chockful) full up to the breaking (bursting etc) point (so that) there isn't room for (more (another NP etc)).
    "...Нагрузили мою машину снарядами по самую завязку»... (Шолохов 1). "...My lorry was loaded with shells right to the top..." (1a). "We loaded up my lorry chockful of shells" (1c).
    «...Мы этого вашего Чонкина в настоящий момент до себя ( substand = к себе) взять не можем, местов ( substand = мест) нету. Гарнизонная гауптвахта - под завязку» (Войнович 4). "We are not taking that Chonkin of yours at the present moment because we have no room here. The garrison guardhouse is full up" (4a).
    Вот это квас! Аж дух зашибает. Погоди, бабка, не уноси. Сейчас я сбегаю по малому делу, ешё выпью, а то уж некуда, под завязку» (Войнович 5). "That's kvass. Takes your breath away. Hold on, don't take it away. I'll go run and take a leak and then I'll have some more. There isn't room for another drop in me right now" (5a).
    2. - чего (у кого, в ком) (quantit subj-compl with copula ( subj / gen: abstr or concr) or adv
    (of work, some emotion, some quality etc) sth. is present in the most extreme ( usu. maximum) amount possible, tolerable etc: у Y-a X-a \З-26 = Y has all the X he can handle
    Y is up to his neck (his ears etc) in X (of work only) Y is swamped (plowed under, snowed under) with X.

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  • 66 К-212

    КОМАР НОСА (у) HE ПОДТОЧИТ (HE ПОДТОЧИЛ БЫ) coll VP sub these forms only used as indep. sent or subord clause (introduced by что or, if subjunctive, by чтобы, often after a main clause containing так), fixed WO
    sth. is done so flawlessly that no defects can be found: (it is) a precise (beautiful, very neat) job
    (it's) done to a T (to perfection).
    Выходит, всё делается по правилам - комар носу не подточит (Эткинд 1). So everything was being done according to the rules-a beautiful job (1a).
    «Выкопал я ей яму, как тайничку полагается, книзу шире, кувшином, узким горлом вверх. Яму тоже дымом сушили, обогревали. В самую, самую метель. Спрятали картошку... землей забросали. Комар носу не подточит» (Пастернак 1). "So I made the pit in the proper way for a hiding place, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, like a jug, and we started a fire again and warmed and dried the pit with the smoke-all in a howling blizzard. Then we put the potatoes into the pit and the earth back on top. A very neat job it was" (1a).

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  • 67 К-389

    КРИКОМ (КРИЧМЙ) КРИЧАТЬ со// VP subj: human fixed WO ( var. with криком)) to shout very loudly, as loudly as one can
    X криком кричал = X shouted (yelled, screamed) at the top of his voice (lungs)
    X cried (shouted, screamed) his head off X screamed his lungs out X shouted for all he was worth.
    К довершению содома, кричал кричмя дворовый ребя-тишка, получивший от матери затрещину... (Гоголь 3). То make the uproar more complete, one of the house-serfs, a little boy who had been slapped by his mother, was screaming at the top of his voice... (3a).
    По вечерам, возвращаясь с поля, Михаил частенько слышит ликующие голоса своих братьев в сосняке за деревней, и хоть криком кричи - не зазовёшь домой (Абрамов 1). Returning from the field in the evenings, Mikhail would often hear the exultant voices of his brothers in the pine forest back of the village. And though he would shout for all he was worth, his shouts would not bring them home (1a).

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  • 68 О-86

    ОЙ ЛИ? highly coll Interj Invar
    used in reaction to a statement to show that one doubts, disbelieves, is skeptical of, or does not entirely agree with it (in some cases surprise is expressed as well): (oh,) really (yeah)?
    is that so? you don't say (so)! Ггп not so sure (about that)
    (in limited contexts) is it (do you, have they etc)? Нам так нужно, и мы в этом не виноваты. Не виноваты? Ой ли? (Аксёнов 6). That is what we need, and it is not our fault. Not our fault? Really? (6a).
    «...При большевиках кто будет у власти? Ты будешь, если выберут...» - «А сверху кто?» - «Опять же кого выберут. Выберут тебя — и ты будешь сверху». — «Ой ли? А не брешешь ты, Митрич?» (Шолохов 3). "...Under the Bolsheviks, who will get the power? You will, if you're elected..." uBut who'll be at the top?" "Again it depends on who's elected. If they elect you, you'll be at the top." "Oh, yeah? Sure you're not kidding, 'Mit-rich?" (3a).
    Вера:) В таком случае вы можете ему сказать... что я готова за него замуж выйти. (Шпигельский (с радостным изумлением):} Ой ли? (Тургенев 1). (V.:) Then, you can tell him...that I am willing to marry him. (Sh. (with joyful amazement):) You don't say so! (1a).
    (Мелания:) Притворяется он сумасшедшим. Притворяется... (Ксения:) Ой ли? (Горький 2). (М.:) He's pretending to be mad. Just pretending.... (K.:) I'm not so sure (2a).
    Степанов (ребенок)?» - «Твой». - «Ой ли?» (Шолохов 2). "Is it Stepan's (child)?" "It's yours." "Is it?" (2a).

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  • 69 Ф-20

    В ФОРМЕ (какой) бытье, оказаться, чувствовать себя В ФОРМУ входить, приходить PrepP these forms only subj-compl with copula subj: human, collect (команда, класс etc), or, occas., animal) (often of a performer, public speaker, athlete, or animal in competition) (to be in or get into) the physical or mental condition in which one's strengths, abilities, skills etc are or can be displayed to their fullest
    X в (хорошей) форме » X is in good (fine) form
    X is at his best X is in top (great etc) shape ( usu. in sporting contexts) X is at the top of his game
    Neg X не в форме - X is not up to par
    ( usu. in refer, to one's level of fitness) X is out of shape.
    Рейно говорил в палате о выдержке, мужестве. Когда он кончил, Тесса его поздравил: «Ты сегодня в форме...» (Эренбург 4). Reynaud spoke in the Chamber about firmness and courage. When he finished his speech, Tessa congratulated him. "You were in good form today" (4a).
    Так уж получалось, что, когда Фаина жаловалась на то, что плохо выглядит, то казалась Лёве наиболее красивой, любимой и близкой... Его радовало, когда она бывала измученной, слабой и несчастной... и наоборот, пугало, когда она была «в форме»: красивой, уверенной, бодрой (Битов 2). Thus it was that when Faina complained of looking bad she seemed to Lyova most beautiful, beloved, and close....It gladdened him when she was exhausted, weak, and unhappy...and vice versa, it frightened him when she was uat her best": beautiful, confident, cheerful (2a).

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  • 70 вертеться волчком

    [VP]
    =====
    1. [subj: concr]
    to rotate without stopping:
    - X вертелся волчком X was spinning like a top.
         ♦ Он два раза испытал это страшное мучительное чувство страха смерти... Первый раз он испытал это чувство тогда, когда граната волчком вертелась перед ним и он смотрел на жнивьё, на кусты, на небо и знал, что перед ним была смерть (Толстой 7). Twice he had experienced that agonizing feeling, the dread of death....The first time he had felt it was when the shell had spun like a top in front of him, and he had looked at the stubble field, at the bushes, and the sky, and knew that he was face to face with death (7a).
    2. [subj: human]
    to be in constant motion (while standing or sitting in one place):
    - X вертится волчком X can't hold (stand, sit) still;
    - [in limited contexts] X is fidgety;
    - X has ants in his pants.
    3. [subj: human]
    to bustle, busy o.s. without taking any time to sit down and rest:
    - X вертится волчком X is (always) buzzing about (around);
    - X is (always) busy as a bee.
         ♦ [Лебедев:] В наше время, бывало, день-деньской с лекциями бьёшься, а как только настал вечер, идёшь прямо куда-нибудь на огонь и до самой зари волчком вертишься... (Чехов 4). [L.:] Now, in our time you'd sweat away at your lectures all day long, then you'd make for the bright lights in the evening and buzz around till the crack of dawn (4b).

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  • 71 как на вулкане

    [ как + PrepP; Invar; adv]
    =====
    (to live) in a potentially dangerous situation, expecting sth. unpleasant, disastrous to happen:
    - (be sitting) on a time bomb (a volcano).
         ♦ "Живем мы, знаете, как на вулкане... Всё может произойти..."(Ильф и Петров 1). "We're living on top of a volcano, you know. Anything can happen" (1a).
         ♦ "Интересно, постигаете ли вы, на каком мы тут и без вас вулкане?" - "...Жена совершенно права. И без вас не сладко" (Пастернак 1). "I wonder if you realize what a volcano we are sitting on even without you here?" "...My wife is quite right. Things are bad enough without you" (1a).

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  • 72 по завязку

    ПОД <ПО> (САМУЮ) ЗАВЯЗКУ highly coll
    [PrepP; these forms only; fixed WO]
    =====
    1. наполнить, нагрузить, набить что (чем or, less often, кем) по завязку [usu. adv]
    (to fill, load etc sth.) to its uppermost physical capacity, to a point beyond which it is impossible, unadvisable, unrealistic etc to go:
    - chock-full < chockful>;
    - to the breaking <bursting etc> point;
    - (so that) there isn't room for (more <another [NP] etc>).
         ♦ "...Нагрузили мою машину снарядами по самую завязку"... (Шолохов 1). "...My lorry was loaded with shells right to the top..." (1a). "We loaded up my lorry chockful of shells" (lc).
         ♦ "...Мы этого вашего Чонкина в настоящий момент до себя [substand = к себе] взять не можем, местов [substand = мест] нету. Гарнизонная гауптвахта - под завязку" (Войнович 4). "We are not taking that Chonkin of yours at the present moment because we have no room here. The garrison guardhouse is full up" (4a).
         ♦ "Вот это квас! Аж дух зашибает. Погоди, бабка, не уноси. Сейчас я сбегаю по малому делу, ешё выпью, а то уж некуда, под завязку" (Войнович 5). "That's kvass. Ikkes your breath away. Hold on, don't take it away. I'll go run and take a leak and then I'll have some more. There isn't room for another drop in me right now" (5a).
    2. по завязку чего кого, в ком) [quantit subj-compl with copula (subj/ gen: abstr or concr) or adv]
    (of work, some emotion, some quality etc) sth. is present in the most extreme (usu. maximum) amount possible, tolerable etc:
    - Y is up to his neck <his ears etc> in X;
    - [of work only] Y is swamped (plowed under, snowed under) with X.

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  • 73 по самую завязку

    ПОД <ПО> (САМУЮ) ЗАВЯЗКУ highly coll
    [PrepP; these forms only; fixed WO]
    =====
    1. наполнить, нагрузить, набить что (чем or, less often, кем) по самую завязку [usu. adv]
    (to fill, load etc sth.) to its uppermost physical capacity, to a point beyond which it is impossible, unadvisable, unrealistic etc to go:
    - chock-full < chockful>;
    - to the breaking <bursting etc> point;
    - (so that) there isn't room for (more <another [NP] etc>).
         ♦ "...Нагрузили мою машину снарядами по самую завязку"... (Шолохов 1). "...My lorry was loaded with shells right to the top..." (1a). "We loaded up my lorry chockful of shells" (lc).
         ♦ "...Мы этого вашего Чонкина в настоящий момент до себя [substand = к себе] взять не можем, местов [substand = мест] нету. Гарнизонная гауптвахта - под завязку" (Войнович 4). "We are not taking that Chonkin of yours at the present moment because we have no room here. The garrison guardhouse is full up" (4a).
         ♦ "Вот это квас! Аж дух зашибает. Погоди, бабка, не уноси. Сейчас я сбегаю по малому делу, ешё выпью, а то уж некуда, под завязку" (Войнович 5). "That's kvass. Ikkes your breath away. Hold on, don't take it away. I'll go run and take a leak and then I'll have some more. There isn't room for another drop in me right now" (5a).
    2. по самую завязку чего кого, в ком) [quantit subj-compl with copula (subj/ gen: abstr or concr) or adv]
    (of work, some emotion, some quality etc) sth. is present in the most extreme (usu. maximum) amount possible, tolerable etc:
    - Y is up to his neck <his ears etc> in X;
    - [of work only] Y is swamped (plowed under, snowed under) with X.

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  • 74 под завязку

    ПОД <ПО> (САМУЮ) ЗАВЯЗКУ highly coll
    [PrepP; these forms only; fixed WO]
    =====
    1. наполнить, нагрузить, набить что (чем or, less often, кем) под завязку [usu. adv]
    (to fill, load etc sth.) to its uppermost physical capacity, to a point beyond which it is impossible, unadvisable, unrealistic etc to go:
    - chock-full < chockful>;
    - to the breaking <bursting etc> point;
    - (so that) there isn't room for (more <another [NP] etc>).
         ♦ "...Нагрузили мою машину снарядами по самую завязку"... (Шолохов 1). "...My lorry was loaded with shells right to the top..." (1a). "We loaded up my lorry chockful of shells" (lc).
         ♦ "...Мы этого вашего Чонкина в настоящий момент до себя [substand = к себе] взять не можем, местов [substand = мест] нету. Гарнизонная гауптвахта - под завязку" (Войнович 4). "We are not taking that Chonkin of yours at the present moment because we have no room here. The garrison guardhouse is full up" (4a).
         ♦ "Вот это квас! Аж дух зашибает. Погоди, бабка, не уноси. Сейчас я сбегаю по малому делу, ешё выпью, а то уж некуда, под завязку" (Войнович 5). "That's kvass. Ikkes your breath away. Hold on, don't take it away. I'll go run and take a leak and then I'll have some more. There isn't room for another drop in me right now" (5a).
    2. под завязку чего кого, в ком) [quantit subj-compl with copula (subj/ gen: abstr or concr) or adv]
    (of work, some emotion, some quality etc) sth. is present in the most extreme (usu. maximum) amount possible, tolerable etc:
    - Y is up to his neck <his ears etc> in X;
    - [of work only] Y is swamped (plowed under, snowed under) with X.

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  • 75 под самую завязку

    ПОД <ПО> (САМУЮ) ЗАВЯЗКУ highly coll
    [PrepP; these forms only; fixed WO]
    =====
    1. наполнить, нагрузить, набить что (чем or, less often, кем) под самую завязку [usu. adv]
    (to fill, load etc sth.) to its uppermost physical capacity, to a point beyond which it is impossible, unadvisable, unrealistic etc to go:
    - chock-full < chockful>;
    - to the breaking <bursting etc> point;
    - (so that) there isn't room for (more <another [NP] etc>).
         ♦ "...Нагрузили мою машину снарядами по самую завязку"... (Шолохов 1). "...My lorry was loaded with shells right to the top..." (1a). "We loaded up my lorry chockful of shells" (lc).
         ♦ "...Мы этого вашего Чонкина в настоящий момент до себя [substand = к себе] взять не можем, местов [substand = мест] нету. Гарнизонная гауптвахта - под завязку" (Войнович 4). "We are not taking that Chonkin of yours at the present moment because we have no room here. The garrison guardhouse is full up" (4a).
         ♦ "Вот это квас! Аж дух зашибает. Погоди, бабка, не уноси. Сейчас я сбегаю по малому делу, ешё выпью, а то уж некуда, под завязку" (Войнович 5). "That's kvass. Ikkes your breath away. Hold on, don't take it away. I'll go run and take a leak and then I'll have some more. There isn't room for another drop in me right now" (5a).
    2. под самую завязку чего кого, в ком) [quantit subj-compl with copula (subj/ gen: abstr or concr) or adv]
    (of work, some emotion, some quality etc) sth. is present in the most extreme (usu. maximum) amount possible, tolerable etc:
    - Y is up to his neck <his ears etc> in X;
    - [of work only] Y is swamped (plowed under, snowed under) with X.

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  • 76 комар носа не подточил бы

    КОМАР НОСА <-у> НЕ ПОДТОЧИТ < НЕ ПОДТОЧИЛ БЫ> coll
    [VPsubj; these forms only; used as indep. sent or subord clause (introduced by что or, if subjunctive, by чтобы, often after a main clause containing так), fixed WO]
    =====
    sth. is done so flawlessly that no defects can be found:
    - (it is) a precise (beautiful, very neat) job;
    - (it's) done to a T (to perfection).
         ♦ Выходит, всё делается по правилам - комар носу не подточит (Эткинд 1). So everything was being done according to the rules - a beautiful job (1a).
         ♦ "Выкопал я ей яму, как тайничку полагается, книзу шире, кувшином, узким горлом вверх. Яму тоже дымом сушили, обогревали. В самую, самую метель. Спрятали картошку... землей забросали. Комар носу не подточит" (Пастернак 1). "So I made the pit in the proper way for a hiding place, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, like a jug, and we started a fire again and warmed and dried the pit with the smoke - all in a howling blizzard. Then we put the potatoes into the pit and the earth back on top. A very neat job it was" (1a).

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  • 77 комар носа не подточит

    КОМАР НОСА <-у> НЕ ПОДТОЧИТ < НЕ ПОДТОЧИЛ БЫ> coll
    [VPsubj; these forms only; used as indep. sent or subord clause (introduced by что or, if subjunctive, by чтобы, often after a main clause containing так), fixed WO]
    =====
    sth. is done so flawlessly that no defects can be found:
    - (it is) a precise (beautiful, very neat) job;
    - (it's) done to a T (to perfection).
         ♦ Выходит, всё делается по правилам - комар носу не подточит (Эткинд 1). So everything was being done according to the rules - a beautiful job (1a).
         ♦ "Выкопал я ей яму, как тайничку полагается, книзу шире, кувшином, узким горлом вверх. Яму тоже дымом сушили, обогревали. В самую, самую метель. Спрятали картошку... землей забросали. Комар носу не подточит" (Пастернак 1). "So I made the pit in the proper way for a hiding place, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, like a jug, and we started a fire again and warmed and dried the pit with the smoke - all in a howling blizzard. Then we put the potatoes into the pit and the earth back on top. A very neat job it was" (1a).

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  • 78 комар носу не подточил бы

    КОМАР НОСА <-у> НЕ ПОДТОЧИТ < НЕ ПОДТОЧИЛ БЫ> coll
    [VPsubj; these forms only; used as indep. sent or subord clause (introduced by что or, if subjunctive, by чтобы, often after a main clause containing так), fixed WO]
    =====
    sth. is done so flawlessly that no defects can be found:
    - (it is) a precise (beautiful, very neat) job;
    - (it's) done to a T (to perfection).
         ♦ Выходит, всё делается по правилам - комар носу не подточит (Эткинд 1). So everything was being done according to the rules - a beautiful job (1a).
         ♦ "Выкопал я ей яму, как тайничку полагается, книзу шире, кувшином, узким горлом вверх. Яму тоже дымом сушили, обогревали. В самую, самую метель. Спрятали картошку... землей забросали. Комар носу не подточит" (Пастернак 1). "So I made the pit in the proper way for a hiding place, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, like a jug, and we started a fire again and warmed and dried the pit with the smoke - all in a howling blizzard. Then we put the potatoes into the pit and the earth back on top. A very neat job it was" (1a).

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  • 79 комар носу не подточит

    КОМАР НОСА <-у> НЕ ПОДТОЧИТ < НЕ ПОДТОЧИЛ БЫ> coll
    [VPsubj; these forms only; used as indep. sent or subord clause (introduced by что or, if subjunctive, by чтобы, often after a main clause containing так), fixed WO]
    =====
    sth. is done so flawlessly that no defects can be found:
    - (it is) a precise (beautiful, very neat) job;
    - (it's) done to a T (to perfection).
         ♦ Выходит, всё делается по правилам - комар носу не подточит (Эткинд 1). So everything was being done according to the rules - a beautiful job (1a).
         ♦ "Выкопал я ей яму, как тайничку полагается, книзу шире, кувшином, узким горлом вверх. Яму тоже дымом сушили, обогревали. В самую, самую метель. Спрятали картошку... землей забросали. Комар носу не подточит" (Пастернак 1). "So I made the pit in the proper way for a hiding place, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, like a jug, and we started a fire again and warmed and dried the pit with the smoke - all in a howling blizzard. Then we put the potatoes into the pit and the earth back on top. A very neat job it was" (1a).

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  • 80 криком кричать

    КРИКОМ < КРИЧМЯ> КРИЧАТЬ coll
    [VP; subj: human; fixed WO (var. with криком)]
    =====
    to shout very loudly, as loudly as one can:
    - X криком кричал X shouted (yelled, screamed) at the top of his voice (lungs);
    - X cried (shouted, screamed) his head off;
    - X shouted for all he was worth.
         ♦ К довершению содома, кричал кричмя дворовый ребятишка, получивший от матери затрещину... (Гоголь 3). То make the uproar more complete, one of the house-serfs, a little boy who had been slapped by his mother, was screaming at the top of his voice... (3a).
         ♦ По вечерам, возвращаясь с поля, Михаил частенько слышит ликующие голоса своих братьев в сосняке за деревней, и хоть криком кричи - не зазовёшь домой (Абрамов 1). Returning from the field in the evenings, Mikhail would often hear the exultant voices of his brothers in the pine forest back of the village. And though he would shout for all he was worth, his shouts would not bring them home (1a).

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